Bombay before bollywood :

By:

Thomas, Rosie

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: NEW DELHI Orient Blackswan, 2014Description: 325ISBN:

812505362X (hardcover)
9788125053620 (hardcover)

DDC classification:

823 THO

Online resources:

Click here to access online

Summary: This book offers a fresh, alternative look at the history of Bombay cinema. Eschewing the conventional focus on India's social and mythological films, it foregrounds the subaltern genres of fantasy, costume and stunt films popular in the B- and C-circuits in the decades before and immediately after independence. It explores the influence of this 'other' cinema on the big-budget masala films of the 1970s and 1980s, before 'Bollywood' erupted onto the world stage in the mid-1990s. The book reminds us that a significant stream of Bombay cinema has always revelled in cultural hybridity, engaging with global popular culture and transcultural flows of cosmopolitan modernity and postmodernity.

Reviews from LibraryThing.com:

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Reference	Mahindra University VNLRC Reference	MT	823 THO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan		4399

Browsing Mahindra University VNLRC shelves, Shelving location: Reference Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)

Previous
Previous	823 MAZ Bombay cinema: an archive of the city	823 SEN Figurations in Indian film /	823 SEN Figurations in Indian film /	823 THO Bombay before bollywood :	823 VIR The cinematic imagination :

This book offers a fresh, alternative look at the history of Bombay cinema. Eschewing the conventional focus on India's social and mythological films, it foregrounds the subaltern genres of fantasy, costume and stunt films popular in the B- and C-circuits in the decades before and immediately after independence. It explores the influence of this 'other' cinema on the big-budget masala films of the 1970s and 1980s, before 'Bollywood' erupted onto the world stage in the mid-1990s. The book reminds us that a significant stream of Bombay cinema has always revelled in cultural hybridity, engaging with global popular culture and transcultural flows of cosmopolitan modernity and postmodernity.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

here